How to Write Unmaintainable Code (1999)

downbad_

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10237636

none2585

One of my favorites to come back to periodically

oniony

Original: https://www.mindprod.com/jgloss/unmain.html

miqkt

Ah, time to copy this into the custom instructions for an LLM to amuse myself with.

vharuck

>4. Use acronyms to keep the code terse. Real men never define acronyms; they understand them genetically. I'll see this and raise inherited SAS code where data sets in the process were named "AAA", "BBB", and so on. To prevent any kind of naming reason, even chronological, new data sets could adopt others' when the existing data set would no longer show up in the program. Which was so helpful when updates needed the previous data.